Making the difference?

Can a person make the difference when talking about important matters such as political, social or economical issues in society?  Well, it depends on who, when, what, where and how, this can become true or completely absurd.

There are many dream sellers who convince people of making the difference in the world, or in other cases making the difference in their own lives (for instance, religious groups). In some occasions they are part of good intentioned associations, in other cases, they are big cheaters…

The biggest difference I think it can be really achieved is in us, in the way we see life, and from there on everything else can become better for us and for our environment. Greater differences all around the world could happen or not and that shouldn’t be the point of discussion.   If we allowed a world change claim to be our lives rule that would be the beginning of a great frustration that could end making the opposite effect we had been looking for.

If we were all lovers of intelligence, sensitiveness, music, history, nature and so on we wouldn’t make any more wars, killings and so many other pains all around the world. If we were more human, the difference wouldn’t be needed. How can we follow this ideal? First of all, we should change our point of view to try to be happier; that could trigger many good things in the rest of the people who surround us. A useful warning from my point of view would be not wasting much energy in changing the world, love the world the way it is and try to live peacefully. However, death will win the battle against life, that’s for sure. Life is extremely short to waste it trying to change things that would lead us to deep frustration.

On the other hand, most people always talk about making the change or the difference. But the topic is consumed during a coffee talk; while in real life we play the same game that the system imposes, contributing in this way to increase the gap between the richest people and the poorest. So, instead of thinking about making the difference why don’t we start doing it? Maybe because nobody really wants it to become true. Perhaps we are just fine, and the rhetorical talks are to kill time from time to time.

Composition # 2 - Level 14 - CUI UBA

State: to be corrected

Apología del fracaso

Es en el fracaso donde se ponen a prueba las grandezas o las flaquezas de los hombres. Es en la cruel afrenta con la triste realidad de la frustración donde podemos percibir la finitud de todo aquello que nos rodea y de nuestras propias existencias. Es en el corto lapso de nuestros éxitos donde podemos percibir lo efímero de nuestros sueños. ¿Es acaso el éxito estéril merecedor de mayores elogios? Aquel éxito es el que promueve la grandilocuencia y el orgullo que imprimen en nosotros una insensibilidad arrogante y devastadora. Es aquel éxito el que nos vacía por dentro, haciéndonos creer los dueños de esos logros ilusorios que se diluirán de algún u otro modo con el paso del tiempo. No es sino el fracaso el que nos otorga la humildad y la sencillez de mirar con otros ojos la realidad que hasta hacía poco negábamos o creíamos inexistente. Es el fracaso el que nos da la verdadera percepción de la fragilidad de todas las cosas que creíamos inalterables e imperturbables.

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Should the punishment fit the crime?

Should punishments fit their respective crimes? What does it mean exactly?

For some people there are some types of crimes which should be strongly punished, even with death penalty. Examples of these non-tolerated crimes are murder, rape and kidnapping. Other crimes such as fraud, embezzlement, bribery and smuggler are usually more accepted by society and even more, in some cases those crimes are applauded, maybe because people’s greed is so powerful that the end of having money is eventually more important than the means they use to earn it.

Is the Capital Punishment acceptable? It depends on many things. In first place, it will depend on whether you or your known people have ever been victims of these crimes or if you can analyze it from an objective point of view. How can society feel sane if its own members are condemned to death? It doesn’t matter how awful a person has been, it doesn’t matter how terrible his acts has been. The thing is that our answer as rational beings would have gone to hell. If we accepted death penalties as a current fact of day-by-day life our existence as human beings would have been degraded to a middle age behaviour style. 


Aren’t we a race which main goal is to progress?  Don’t we want better conditions for every citizen over the world? Can we tolerate hunger, poverty and isolation? Why are we more concerned about a killer who has murdered a person than what we are for those politicians whose decisions affect millions of individuals?  Why do we accept the biggest robbery related to frauds, money laundering and embezzlements as if were respectable things? Because it is what most of us do while looking up at those politicians and many other people whose main profits are made by letting people starving, poor and isolated from the society. Eventually those last ones are the aimed ones by society as if they had decided to be “bad guys” by themselves. 

Composition #1 – CUI – Level 14

State: to be corrected

UTOPIA

¿Qué es la utopía?

Utopía es una isla idílica imaginada y descripta por Tomás Moro cuyo Estado idealizado proveería un bienestar social y económico a todos los habitantes. Aparentemente en esta isla no hay una jerarquización o identificación de clases sociales, ricos o pobres, nobles o plebeyos. Para los capitalistas esto sería comunismo. Para los comunistas, una charla de café.

Según la RAE la utopía es un sistema optimista que aparece como irrealizable en el momento de su formulación. Es por esto que el comunismo como sistema es imposible por definición. ¿Acaso algún intelectual se atrevería a juzgar lo versado por la RAE en vistas de sostener su propio sistema de creencias? ¡Por favor!

Según Joan Manuel Serrat es aquello sin lo cual la vida sería un ensayo para la muerte. Es por este mismo motivo que el famoso cantautor terminó ensayando su propia muerte en vida, en vida burguesa, que hoy en día se está dando por los pagos catalanes de Barcelona. Él no mintió, él simplemente demostró su hipótesis en carne propia. Se sacrificó –ensayando su propia muerte—para todos sus seguidores idealistas, claro… ¿Claro?

Utopía es gastar el tiempo como burgueses, suponiendo que vale la pena divagar sobre temas que pretendemos solucionar, cuando ya están extintos de antemano. Es cuando uno se da el lujo –lujo estéril— de creer que su participación generará un cambio que lo conducirá a aquella isla idílica  donde ya no hay sufrimiento, donde todos disfrutan de la convivencia y la paz social, mientras le pasa a un mendigo por al lado… mirando hacia otro costado.

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